Oct. 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1541

1. The Board shall meet for the transaction of
   business on the first Monday in each month, at five
   o'clock p.m., at the Templeton Road Board Office,
   Yaldhurst, or at such other time or place as may
   from time to time be fixed by the Board. The first
   meeting shall be held on Monday, the sixth day
   of November, one thousand eight hundred and
   eighty-two.

2. Special meetings may be convened by the Chair-
   man or by any two members of the Board, provided
   that two days' notice of such meeting be given to
   each member, specifying the business to be transacted
   at such special meeting, and no other business than
   that so specified shall be transacted at such meeting.

3. Any three of the said Board shall form a
   quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time
   to time.

4. The members of the Board shall, at their first
   meeting, and thereafter at an annual meeting to be
   held on the second Monday in January in every suc-
   ceeding year thereafter, elect one of themselves to
   be Chairman, who may join in the discussion, and
   shall have an original as well as a casting vote. The
   Chairman shall hold office until the election of his
   successor.

5. If at any meeting the Chairman is not present
   at the time appointed for holding the same, the mem-
   bers present shall choose some one of their number
   to be Chairman of such meeting.

6. If, by resignation, death, or incapacity, or other-
   wise, the office of Chairman shall be or become vacant,
   the members may at any monthly or special meeting
   appoint a Chairman.

7. All questions shall be determined by the majority
   of votes of the members of the Board present at a
   meeting.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

[NOTE. This Order in Council will supersede that of the 5th
September, 1882, in consequence of the time and place of the
first meeting of the Board having been wrongly determined.]

Regulations for the Sale of Arms, Ammunition, &c.,
in the Middle Island.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-fourth day of October, 1882.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE
GOVERNMENT IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise and in pursuance of the powers and
authorities vested in him by "The Arms Act,
1880," His Excellency the Administrator of the
Government of the Colony of New Zealand, by and
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
thereof, doth hereby rescind a certain Order in
Council dated the nineteenth day of February, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, which
prescribed regulations for the sale of arms and
ammunition within the Middle Island of New Zea-
land, and in substitution thereof doth hereby order
and declare that, from and after the date of this
present Order in Council, so much of the provisions
of the aforesaid Act as prevent or interfere with the
sale or purchase of arms, ammunition, gunpowder,
lead, caps, or shot for mining, sporting, or any useful
or harmless purpose, and the fee imposed in respect
of ordinary licenses in the Form A in the said Act
contained, shall be and the same are hereby sus-
pended within the entire district contained within

the sea-coast line of the Middle Island proper, ex-
clusive of any islands lying adjacent or contiguous
thereto; and doth hereby frame and prescribe the
regulations and conditions mentioned in the Schedule
hereto, as the regulations and conditions subject to
which ammunition for such purposes may henceforth
be obtained within the aforesaid district.

SCHEDULE.

1. Any Justice of the Peace, Collector of Customs,
   or Officer of Police may, in his discretion, grant a
   permit to any applicant to purchase not more than
   two pounds powder, twenty pounds of shot, and five
   hundred caps.

2. Every permit shall be exercised within the same
   month in which it is granted.

3. Every permit shall be signed by a Justice of the
   Peace, Collector of Customs, or Officer of Police,
   and bear upon it the date of the day on which he
   shall grant the same. No particular form of words
   shall be necessary.

4. Every permit shall be granted free of cost.

5. Every licensed dealer shall, before delivering any
   ammunition to any purchaser, require such purchaser
   to sign a receipt, in words at length, without the use
   of any numeral figures, for the quantity of each sort
   of ammunition he shall receive from such dealer, with
   his name and address, and date of the day of receiving
   such ammunition. Failing in any of these particulars,
   the dealer shall refuse to deliver to the purchaser any
   of the ammunition, and shall refund any money paid
   for the same.

6. If any such dealer shall sell or dispose of any
   ammunition, with or without price or reward, to any
   other person, without taking such receipt, or shall
   within any one month sell or dispose of to the same
   person any quantity of ammunition exceeding the
   quantity mentioned in regulation one hereof, the
   Governor may exercise his power of cancelling or
   withdrawing the license of such dealer.

7. Every such receipt shall be given by the pur-
   chaser, on receiving the ammunition, to the dealer,
   who shall keep the same.

8. The particulars of the receipt shall be copied by
   the dealer into the book required to be kept by such
   dealer under the provisions of section thirteen of
   the above-mentioned Act.

9. Every receipt shall be produced, on demand, to
   any Licensing Officer, or person duly authorized by
   him to require the same.

10. Any Justice of the Peace, Collector of Customs,
    or Officer of Police may, in his discretion, grant to
    any applicant a permit for an increased quantity of
    ammunition not exceeding twenty-five pounds of
    gunpowder, and a proportionate quantity of shot
    and caps, when satisfied that it is required for the
    destruction of rabbits upon stations and the like,
    and that it will be used for those purposes. Every
    such sale of an increased quantity of ammunition
    under this regulation shall, so far only as the same
    relates to the receipt to be taken by the dealer, be
    subject to the regulations numbered five to nine
    hereof inclusive.

11. Nothing in this Order in Council contained
    shall be construed in any way to annul, alter, amend,
    or affect the provisions of the Order in Council,
    dated the tenth day of June last past, relating to the
    use of blasting powder for mining purposes, or in
    any way to limit the operation of the said last-
    mentioned order.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.